Example sentences of "is [v-ing] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a result of pressure from British , French , Spanish and Belgian beer manufacturers which claim Germany is using this law to keep them out of its ( huge ) market . |
| 2 | At the start of the move phase the player declares how much steam he is using this turn — in effect how high a pressure he wants to run the boiler at . |
| 3 | Mark is using this story to show that Jesus is the anointed one , and that , as Messiah , he was about to suffer and die . |
| 4 | erm Peter wants to tighten up on on on the business of erm carrying holidays over and I think he 's right , actually , erm and he also is using this opportunity to try to et us to plan our holidays as a group so that we 're not all off at the same time , or if it 's appropriate we should all be off a the same time then we 're off at the same time , but it 's erm common sense should prevail one way or another , but it would be a good idea if you could let me have erm a brief indication of any major times you plan to be away . |
| 5 | Can I just express my e concern that erm Mr is using this examination in public as a an opportunity to knock other schemes in the Greater York area . |
| 6 | She added : ‘ Stewart is parading this woman round ITN . |
| 7 | Psychology 's theoretical uncertainties are expressed , not just in the difficulty of getting objective knowledge of subjectivity , but also in the precarious power of the psychologist who is pursuing this knowledge : |
| 8 | And anyway , it could also be argued that it is the accounting system which is allowing this manipulation ( perhaps even inducing it ) and therefore the accounting system should be modified to prevent it . |
| 9 | ‘ I have done a fair bit of business travelling to meetings in London , ’ said Mr Pilkington , who seizes the opportunity for more practice on train journeys appropriately since BR is sponsoring this year 's Times championship . |
| 10 | But the tide must have turned when even a big commercial panto like this at the Manchester Palace — one of 21 that Paul Elliott is producing this year — rediscovers its roots in traditional storytelling . |
| 11 | The government claims that it is tackling this issue through its Making Belfast Work programme . |
| 12 | When blood is spurting this technique is less successful , partly because the endoscopic view is obscured . |
| 13 | Where a member of the Parliamentary Labour Party is representing this party in parliament for the first time the above ( normal ) procedure shall be set in motion not earlier than eighteen months after his or her election as Member of Parliament . |
| 14 | The next step , which only the most well-off men such as restaurant owners can afford , is keeping this wife in semi-purdah — in other words sentencing her to solitary confinement . |
| 15 | Martin Brundle arrived at the circuit with a mint-fresh six-litre Jaguar XJR-S on load for the day from Tom Walkinshaw Racing , a company connected with the Benetton F1 team for which Brundle is driving this season . |
| 16 | Billed as accessible , handy , hard-working and affordable , Pan is publishing this spring in the UK ( US : Holt ; Canada : Key Porter ) . |
| 17 | The union is meeting this afternoon to discuss the results of tests taken on Len at the time of the accident . |
| 18 | The aim is to invite the Holy Spirit to reveal what is causing this block to growth and to invite him to heal and restore to wholeness the person in question . |
| 19 | The DoT was unable to give a figure for how much the repair work on the Midlands motorways is costing this year . |
| 20 | Lucas Automotive , the major sector in the Lucas Industries business , is addressing this need with a series of ‘ best practice ’ reviews across its European operations . |
| 21 | The Government is turning this country into an industrial desert . ’ |
| 22 | After complaints by clients , Daiwa is investigating this branch . |
| 23 | SCOTVEC is investigating this area as a matter of urgency . |
| 24 | But everyone knows who is pulling this country down . |
| 25 | DARLINGTON Hospice is celebrating this week in anticipation of a share of a £37.2m Government grant just announced for hospices throughout Britain . |
| 26 | THE hospice is celebrating this week after winning a £10,000 grant from a London-based charitable trust to help fund structural alterations at its new home , Harewood House . |
| 27 | General Accident is supporting this request and have taken the decision to continue with payment of benefit when a claimant attends such a course . |
| 28 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the imaginative experiment that the Lord Mayor of London is supporting this year , in which young people go into schools to help pupils with learning difficulties and those who are quicker than the rest of the class ? |
| 29 | At the same time as the non-past is undergoing this shift , the use of to with the infinitive is being extended beyond its concrete directional sense to cover all cases of subsequent potentiality and subsequent actualization , for which the bare infinitive had formerly been adequate : " … the use of the to infinitive in the place of the bare or plain infinitive increased rapidly during the late Old English and early Middle English periods " ( Visser 1966 : 948 ) . |
| 30 | Now , if a vast majority likes to base its fashion garmentry on what the American road worker is wearing this year , it seems only sensible that it should base its fashion vehicle on what he is driving . |